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THE FIRST BOOK OF THE<br/>
<span class=large>KINGS</span><br/> COMMONLY CALLED<br/> THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS
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CHAPTER 6
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Solomon builds the temple—The Lord promises to dwell among Israel if they are obedient—Ornaments of the temple are described.
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And</span> it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 6: 37.">fourth</a> year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which <i>is</i> the second month, that he began to <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/1b" mark="b" type="C" title="2 Chr. 3: 1 (1-17); TG Skills.">build</a> the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/1c" mark="c" type="A" title="D&C 88: 119; D&C 124: 27 (26-27).">house</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Chr. 3: 3 (3-4); D&C 95: 13.">house</a> which king <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Ne. 5: 16.">Solomon</a> built for the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, the length thereof <i>was</i> threescore cubits, and the <sup>c</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/2c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ezek. 41: 2.">breadth</a> thereof twenty <i>cubits,</i> and the height thereof thirty cubits.
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 8: 16; Ezek. 40: 49; John 10: 23; Acts 3: 11.">porch</a> before the temple of the house, twenty cubits <i>was</i> the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; <i>and</i> ten cubits <i>was</i> the breadth thereof before the house.
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And for the house he made <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/4a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR recessed and latticed windows.">windows</a> of narrow lights.
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&#182; And against the wall of the house he built <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 41: 6 (5-9, 11).">chambers</a> round about, <i>against </i>the walls of the house round about, <i>both</i> of the temple and of the <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 7: 49; 1 Kgs. 8: 8 (6, 8); D&C 124: 39.">oracle</a>: and he made chambers round about:
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The nethermost chamber <i>was</i> five cubits broad, and the middle <i>was</i> six cubits broad, and the third <i>was</i> seven cubits broad: for without <i>in the wall</i> of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that <i>the beams</i> should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
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And the house, when it was in building, was built of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 5: 17.">stone</a> made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe <i>nor</i> any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
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The door for the middle chamber <i>was</i> in the right side of the house: and they went up with winding stairs into the middle <i>chamber,</i> and out of the middle into the third.
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So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
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And <i>then</i> he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
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&#182; And the word of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> came to Solomon, saying,
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<i>Concerning</i> this house which thou art in building, if thou wilt <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 9: 4; D&C 124: 55.">walk</a> in my statutes, and execute my judgments, and keep all my commandments to walk in them; then will I perform my <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/12b" mark="b" type="A" title="2 Sam. 7: 13; 1 Chr. 22: 10.">word</a> with thee, which I spake unto David thy father:
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And I will <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 25: 8; D&C 124: 24, 27.">dwell</a> among the children of Israel, and will not <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 31: 6 (6, 8); Josh. 1: 5; Heb. 13: 5.">forsake</a> my people Israel.
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So Solomon built the house, and finished it.
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And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the cieling: <i>and</i> he covered <i>them</i> on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
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And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built <i>them</i> for it within, <i>even</i> for the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/16a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE innermost room of the temple of Solomon; Heb. the Holy of Holies.">oracle</a>, <i>even</i> for the most <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/16b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 26: 33; 1 Kgs. 7: 50; 1 Kgs. 8: 6; 2 Chr. 3: 8; Ezek. 41: 4 (1-4); D&C 124: 39.">holy</a> <i>place.</i>
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And the house, that <i>is,</i> the temple before it, was forty cubits <i>long.</i>
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And the cedar of the house within <i>was</i> carved with knops and open flowers: all <i>was</i> cedar; there was no stone seen.
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And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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And the oracle in the forepart <i>was</i> twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and <i>so</i> covered the altar <i>which was of</i> cedar.
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So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 5: 15; D&C 124: 26 (26-27).">gold</a>: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
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And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 30: 1.">altar</a> that <i>was</i> by the oracle he <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/22b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ex. 30: 3.">overlaid</a> with gold.
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&#182; And within the oracle he <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/23a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Art.">made</a> two <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/23b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Cherubim.">cherubims</a> <i>of</i> olive tree, <i>each</i> ten cubits high.
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And five cubits <i>was</i> the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other <i>were</i> ten cubits.
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And the other cherub <i>was</i> ten cubits: both the cherubims <i>were</i> of one measure and one size.
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The height of the one cherub <i>was</i> ten cubits, and so <i>was it</i> of the other cherub.
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And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/27a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 42: 3 (2-3).">cherubims</a>, so that the wing of the one touched the <i>one</i> wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.
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And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
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And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/29a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 7: 36; Ezek. 41: 18.">cherubims</a> and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
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And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
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&#182; And for the entering of the oracle he made <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/31a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ezek. 41: 23.">doors</a> <i>of</i> olive tree: the lintel <i>and</i> side posts <i>were</i> a fifth part <i>of the wall.</i>
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The two doors also <i>were of</i> olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid <i>them</i> with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
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So also made he for the door of the temple posts <i>of</i> olive tree, a fourth part <i>of the wall.</i>
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And the two doors <i>were of</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/34a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 5: 8.">fir</a> tree: the two leaves of the one door <i>were</i> folding, and the two leaves of the other door <i>were</i> folding.
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And he carved <i>thereon</i> cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered <i>them</i> with gold fitted upon the carved work.
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&#182; And he built the inner <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/36a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 21: 5; Ezek. 8: 16; D&C 94: 4 (4-5).">court</a> with three rows of <sup>b</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/36b" mark="b" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 7: 11.">hewed</a> stone, and a row of cedar beams.
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&#182; In the <sup>a</sup><a href="1_kgs/6/37a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Kgs. 6: 1.">fourth</a> year was the foundation of the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> laid, in the month Zif:
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And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which <i>is</i> the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it.  So was he seven years in building it.
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